The fifth annual Battle of Ideas festival will open with a Welcome Address hosted by Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas.
Read Institute of Ideas Director Claire Fox’s introductory essay to the Battle of Ideas 2009.
Speakers Professor David Delpy chief executive, EPSRC
Anoushka Healy assistant editor, Strategy & Development, The Times
Professor Colin Lawson director, Royal College of Music; period clarinettist; author of Cambridge Handbooks to Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet; co-editor of Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music series.
Jeremy Myerson director, Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art, London and holder, Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design; author Space to Work: new office design.
Chair: Claire Fox director, Institute of Ideas; panellist, BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze